Petition to abolish Chancel repair liability

Green3

https://www.change.org/p/the-rt-hon-chris-grayling-mp-abolish-chancel-repair-liability-2?

Everyone should sign this petition. Looks like insurance companies are making millions by selling Indemnity policy.

Tuscan

yeah i signed it yesterday, ive just took out insurance for Chancel repairs but was only £20 so i didnt see the point in risking it. We are moving about 100 yds from a medieval church..

ognum

I thought there was a palimentary bill in 2014 about this although I do not know the outcome

maninthestreet

As properties change ownership, any property that does not currently have CRL noted in it's deeds cannot have any future liability.

rosie383

So if we get the deeds from the conveyancer, and there is nothing on them, then we don't need either a search or insurance?

agrinnall

Green3 wrote: »

https://www.change.org/p/the-rt-hon-chris-grayling-mp-abolish-chancel-repair-liability-2?

Everyone should sign this petition. Looks like insurance companies are making millions by selling Indemnity policy.

Why should everyone sign it? For starters it has no application in Scotland. And what if I'm a shareholder in one of those insurance companies and I'm very happy with them making millions from selling Indemnity policies?

Rumpole

agrinnall wrote: »

Why should everyone sign it?

Because it's trying to abolish what amounts to theft by the Church of England from its neighbours. The churches are struggling to pay their repair bills, presumably because of the ever declining numbers attending - their wheeze is to drag up some long forgotten law from the 16th century in order to extort the repair money from property owners in their parish. It's clearly, well, wrong, that's why everyone should sign it.

phoebe1989seb

The parochial council of the parish in which our last house was located (rural Wilts) opted out of imposing chancel repair liability on properties that would have been affected by it as church leaders there felt it was unfair on their parishioners. Not sure how widespread this opting out is, or whether ours was the only one to do this

agrinnall

Rumpole wrote: »

Because it's trying to abolish what amounts to theft by the Church of England from its neighbours.

So I repeat, why should everyone sign it? The C of E have no jurisdiction in Scotland - it's the West Lothian Question all over again.

movilogo

It is removed for all houses sold after 2014, unless there is already an interest registered (rare) by chancel (which will be revealed during searches).

It is an archaic law and should be abolished.

Indemnify policy costs around £15.

theoretica

Green3 wrote: »

Looks like insurance companies are making millions by selling Indemnity policy.

If any church could determine that all affected properties had the insurance then calling it in would transfer money from the insurance companies to a (probably) nice old building. I find this a nice, if impractical, thing to contemplate. I guess the insurance companies are in many cases betting that they won't actually have a high enough proportion of the market covered for this logic to occur.